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UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950, by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country.

In more than five decades, the agency has helped an estimated 50 million people restart their lives. UNHCR now has more than 16,803 personnel and work in a total of 134 countries to help 70.8 million persons.

 Website: www.unhcr.org
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UNHCR concerned by expulsions from Sudan

2 June 2016 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Annual Reports

Number of Eritreans seeking asylum in Europe soars over figures for last year

14 November 2014 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

UNHCR shocked as boat tragedy leaves scores dead off Italian coast

3 October 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Refugees and the Rashaida: human smuggling and trafficking from Eritrea to Sudan and Egypt

March 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

A responsibility to protect: UNHCR and statelessness in Egypt

January 2013 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Research, Background and Discussion Papers

Somali refugee population still rising in Ethiopia, new camp planned

19 October 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

One survivor, 54 die at sea attempting the voyage to Italy from Libya

11 July 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Fear of compulsory recruitment drives Eritrean teen to flee home

19 March 2012 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Eritrean family leaves Tunisia border camp for new life in Belgium

20 July 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

Disruption at Choucha Camp near Tunisia-Libya border

27 May 2011 | Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Document type: Country News

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